Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from February 6th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Feb 6 (4pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Feb 6 (7:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Feb 6 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Hannah and her non-binary teenager Frances visits her gay grandfather Jimpa at Amsterdam. Frances expresses a desire to stay with their grandfather for a year, challenging Hannah's parenting beliefs and forcing her to confront past issues.

Feb 6 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Jooin, a 17-year-old student, confused by love, unleashes chaos with some words spoken in a moment of anger. Anonymous notes questioning his actions begin to arrive, altering his quiet life.

Feb 6 (7:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.

Feb 6 (9:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Struggling with new parenthood and stalling careers, Kallia and Ram's lives are thrown into chaos when Kallia's blind mother goes on a mission to exorcize the family from the evil eye.

Feb 6 (6pm), Feb 7 (5:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

Feb 6 (6:55pm), Feb 7 (1:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.

Feb 6 (6:15pm), Feb 7 (2pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime. Along the way, she rediscovers love and desire.

Feb 6 (6:45pm), Feb 7 (6:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Andre, an irreverent man, embarks on an unexpected journey after receiving a terminal diagnosis, determined to maintain his humor while learning to die happily.

Feb 6 (7pm), Feb 7 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A vampire family deals with their father's death in NYC while being pursued by Van Helsing and his nephew. Love and destruction clash in this modern vampire story.

Feb 7 (1:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.

Feb 7 (2:40pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli-American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home.

Feb 7 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows students from the Washington Urban Debate League as they navigate the ups and downs of adolescence and strive to compete at ever higher levels of competitive debate.

Feb 8 (2:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.

Feb 10 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

As America's aging wastewater system begins to fail, one plant does all it can to stay afloat.

Feb 11 (5:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Slice-of-life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for 10 years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building: firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage.

Feb 11 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Manhattan)

An exploration of one's relationships with food, sexuality, and revenge. It asks, "How far would you go in the name of love?"

Feb 11 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Through personal video diaries and dance, three teens Amelia, Dedra, and Teylar navigate identity, gender norms, and realize dreams of college, medicine or business.

Feb 12 (6pm, 6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Feb 12 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Feb 13 (6:30pm, 9:15pm), Feb 14 (2:40pm, 5:25pm)

Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

Feb 14 (3:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.

Feb 15 (4pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Feb 17 (6pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Shows efforts on New York's Lower East Side to revive abandoned buildings through the work and persistence of the local, predominantly Latino residents.

This screens along with Orchard Street, 1955.

Feb 17 (7pm, 7:15pm)

BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

Feb 19 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Focusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.

Feb 19 (7pm), Feb 20 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

After seeing a viral video of a young trans woman claiming to be pregnant, an opportunistic filmmaker decides to document her journey to motherhood.

Feb 20 (6:45pm), Feb 21 (6:45pm), Feb 22 (2:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After nearly 50 years of making music together, the Emerson String Quartet plays its final notes. An intimate and timeless tour film.

Feb 21 (4:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Come Here: Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.

Graceland: A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.

Feb 22 (3pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In 1970, She was student activist, a waitress who keeps changing her job, now a film director. All lives loosely connected to each others.

Feb 24 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In the lead-up to Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City, many of the city's Jewish population found themselves at odds over the candidate's positions on Palestine and Israel. By inviting viewers into the homes of New Yorkers on both sides of the campaign, DOC NYC alumna Alison Klayman reveals a fierce battle among American Jews over identity, history, and responsibility.

Feb 26 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Feb 26 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion.

Feb 26 (7:30pm), Feb 27 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A newly divorced sober mom goes to a wedding with a much younger date and behaves like a drunk 25 year old bridesmaid to try and keep up.

Feb 26 (6:50pm), Feb 27 (6:50pm), Feb 28 (6:50pm), Mar 1 (2:45pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A powerful American socialite and an undocumented Mexican ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair in this tense, erotic drama.

Feb 27 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Feb 27 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Agronomist, poet, utopian thinker, and revolutionary... Often referred to as the African Che Guevara, Cabral led the anti-colonial movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde against Portuguese colonialism until his murder in 1973.

Feb 28 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Mar 1 (2pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Krabi, 2562: The landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. It captures the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Mar 1 (4:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun continues to earnestly take care of him he starts to open up his heart through candid conversations.

Mar 3 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A Life Illuminated follows renowned marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder as she embarks on an extraordinary journey into the magical world of deep sea bioluminescence.

Mar 5 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Dong and Chun are a young married couple stuck in the doldrums of their banal daily existence; their difficulty living together chafes against an undeniable physical chemistry. Unacknowledged, the shadow of Tiananmen looms in the background.

Mar 5 (7:30pm)

Union Docs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

With the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban imposed a reign of terror that is particularly brutal towards women. Risking their own lives and those of their loved ones, groups of women fight for their rights.

Mar 6 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Mathias, a virtuoso pianist, lives an impossible love story.

Mar 6 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story.

Mar 7 (12pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Clémence, a lawyer, leaves her marriage to embrace her true self. Her ex-husband fights for custody of their son Paul, manipulating him. As their relationship deteriorates, Clémence struggles to maintain her maternal bond.

Mar 7 (2:15pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

Mar 7 (3:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.

Mar 7 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

In 1980s China, a displaced family's dream of returning to Shanghai from the provinces is threatened when their 19-year-old daughter falls in love with a local boy, forcing a choice between personal happiness and family ambition.

Mar 7 (9:30pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Nino, a young man, explores the streets of Paris to reconnect with the world and himself, after being diagnosed with cancer.

Mar 8 (12:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

The story of Otto von Spreckelsen, a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen, who surprised the world when he won an open-call competition launched by French president François Mitterrand.

Mar 8 (2:15pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.

Mar 8 (3pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Baptiste, a talented impressionist, can't manage to make a living. One day, a novelist, Pierre, asks him to imitate his voice over the telephone, so Pierre can write in peace and quiet. Gradually, Baptiste takes over Pierre's personality.

Mar 8 (5:45pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A Polish engineer relocates to France and becomes a legendary counterfeiter. Working solo, he crafts flawless fake francs worth millions over 14 years, earning the nickname "Cézanne of counterfeit money" for his artistic skill and output.

Mar 8 (9pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A photographer at the peak of his career abandons his success to pursue writing, facing financial hardship and personal struggles as he chases his true passion.

Mar 9 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

In rural France, Mika and Dan's dreams keep hitting dead ends. After Dan's latest mistake, they're forced to work in construction for their friend Tony, desperately seeking escape from their situation.

Mar 10 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Explores how Annie Ernaux's writing is taught in schools and universities.

Mar 11 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Lilia returns to her native Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral to discover surprising details about his personal life that resonate with the secrets she keeps from her family.

Mar 14 (12:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A teen vanishes on her birthday in winter on the French Riviera. Géraldine from the mayor's office investigates amid swirling rumors. Her mother's return complicates matters in a village where minor crimes abound.

Mar 14 (3pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

An actor reconnecting with his estranged daughter while preparing a one-man show about Victor Hugo.

Mar 14 (5:45pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Commissaire Maigret investigates the murder of a former ambassador in the Quai d'Orsay, and its connection to a decades long affair with a recently widowed princess.

Mar 14 (8:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Mar 19 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap experiments.